CHILDHOOD REMINISCENCE My heart beats faster As I await the inevitable. I feel goosebumps all over. The weather seems furious; Blowing wind left to right. I feel my heart coming out of its cage; It’s so painful I think I might die. My eyes are wandering in their sockets; Everyone seems oblivious of my…
Charade – A poem by Alexander Onoja Happiness has a face, Marked by sugar, spice, and everything nice. Behind every troubled heart is a bitter sadness, Hidden by smiles and distant lies. We distract our depression with trends, Dying inside but smiling when with friends. The mirror no longer tells our stories, As it…
May 12th, 2022 – Chinonso Marymartin Okoabu | Creative Nonfiction Nothing shook the country greatly like the death of Deborah Samuel, a 200-level student of Shehu Shagari College of Education, Sokoto. It was not that she had succumbed to the cold hands of death as all mortals would someday, it was the gruesome way…
Gone Before Easter | Dayo Ikotun He went missing during Lent. Like invisible fingers had reached out and snatched him. One minute he was there, laughing and running around the church with his clubbed feet. The next, he was gone. We searched everywhere. Underneath the pews. Behind the altar. The gate post’s toilet. Whether at…